BF Joust Pre-Contest I've built a BF Joust Hill (as in "king of the hill") of 10 jousters for the initial contest start. Anyone who submits a program to me before the contest starts will get a report as to how well it does against those 10. Entries won't be shared, and I won't really "examine" them other than to cut/paste. The purpose now is to see if anything needs adjusting before the contest begins (e.g. max cycles, scoring, etc.)
If you send a program in now, I'll put it in the challenge queue once the program starts in the order it's received, so there may be some benefit to an early submission (go up against easier opponents perhaps). The 10 on the hill are not optimized or tuned to each other in particular, they represent about an hour of trying to come up with several straightforward (and somewhat orthogonal) strategies and also a few counter-strategies. -Goethe
